Dear Emma Grace,

I hope you are happy and always remember to be bold.  

Throughout your years a Longwood you learned a lot through classes, but the most important things you learned outside of them.  Being yourself, personal growth, and not allowing other people’s negative opinions stop you from doing what you love.  I hope you’ve kept these among the thousands of other things in mind as you’ve left Longwood and transitioned into the “real world”.           

What you are doing doesn’t really matter as long as you are making the most of the time you have with the people you love, and still, after years I think this is true.